{"id":64534,"date":"2022-12-26T07:32:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64534"},"modified":"2022-12-26T07:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T12:32:12","slug":"dave-collums-2022-year-in-review-part-2-the-war-in-ukraine-how-does-it-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64534","title":{"rendered":"Dave Collum’s 2022 Year In Review, Part 2: The War In Ukraine & How Does It End?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dave Collum’s 2022 Year In Review, Part 2: The War In Ukraine & How Does It End?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Hello darkness my old friend. I come to talk with you again.<\/em><\/p>\n

~ Simon and Garfunkle in\u00a0The Sounds of Silence<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This Year in Review is brought to you by Pfizer, FTX, and Raytheon…<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Every year,\u00a0David Collum<\/a>\u00a0writes a detailed \u201cYear in Review\u201d synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year\u2019s is no exception, with Dave striking again in his usually poignant and delightfully acerbic way.<\/em><\/p>\n

Read\u00a0Part 1: 2022 Year in Review: All Roads Lead to Ukraine here…<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

To download this\u00a0Part 2<\/strong>\u00a0as a pdf,\u00a02022 The Year in Review: The War in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The War in Ukraine<\/strong><\/p>\n

The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq\u2026I mean of Ukraine\u2026\u00a01<\/a><\/p>\n

~ Former President George W. Bush, Freudian slipping<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are on the cusp of WWIII, what could become the most inclusive war in history, with world leaders who seem incapable of orchestrating a decisive paintball attack. Like so many, I rely on geopolitical events to learn about politics and geography. Task #1: figure out where Ukraine is located on a map. I stumbled upon this top-secret Pentagon strategy map:<\/p>\n

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Oh my God. They have already removed Russia! Task #2: resolve spelling and grammar issues. Is it Ukraine or The Ukraine; Odesa or Odessa; Kiev or Kyiv; Zelensky, Zelenskiy, or Zelenskyy; Donbas or Donbass; and Dumbass or Biden? First disclaimer: there is no chance that I can understand a border war in or near the Baltics. I take solace in that y\u2019all are in the same boat. I am grand theorizing\u2014creating big narratives for a hopelessly complex topic\u2014describing the World According to Dave…<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dave Collum’s 2022 Year In Review, Part 2: The War In Ukraine & How Does It End? Hello darkness my old friend. I come to talk with you again. ~ Simon and Garfunkle in\u00a0The Sounds of Silence This Year in Review is brought to you by Pfizer, FTX, and Raytheon… Every year,\u00a0David Collum\u00a0writes a detailed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32210,17675,553,581,694,821,827,834,862,891,1823,11134],"class_list":["post-64534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-32210","tag-dave-collum","tag-nato","tag-nuclear-war","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3","tag-year-in-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64535,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64534\/revisions\/64535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}